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1942: Britain at the Brink

1942: Britain at the Brink

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'Taylor Downing is a wonderful historian and a wonderful history communicator' Dan Snow, History Hit 'Vividly brings to life a terrible year' Max Hastings, Sunday Times 'Sheds intriguing light on...
The Naughty Nineties: The Decade that Unleashed Sex, Lies, and the World Wide Web

The Naughty Nineties: The Decade that Unleashed Sex, Lies, and the World Wide Web

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Featuring a new foreword by Molly Jong-Fast, THE NAUGHTY NINETIES is a sexual history of the 1990s when the tabloids, the tawdry, and the titillating took over Washington, Hollywood, and...
The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom

The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom

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'A rattling good read' - The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu 2020 sees the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower - the ship that took the Pilgrim...
Britannia's Daughters: Women of the British Empire

Britannia's Daughters: Women of the British Empire

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Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?

Europe's Last Summer: Who Started the Great War in 1914?

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Out of the Woods

Out of the Woods

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The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks

The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks

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1989: End of the Twentieth Century

1989: End of the Twentieth Century

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Terminate with Extreme Prejudice: An Expose of the Assassination Game, Its Killers and Their Paymasters

Terminate with Extreme Prejudice: An Expose of the Assassination Game, Its Killers and Their Paymasters

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Her Majesty the Queen

Her Majesty the Queen

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For Profit: A History of Corporations

For Profit: A History of Corporations

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An "eloquent" ( Economist ) history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism has...
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court

The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court

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'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court history: royal residents, common visitors,...
Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallory's Life and Death in the Mountains

Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallory's Life and Death in the Mountains

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'An extraordinary treasure trove' Andrew Marr A unique collection of unpublished letters from the climbing legend George Mallory to his family, revealing his innermost thoughts about people, places and mountains....
The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War

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Winner of a 2020-2021 New York City Book AwardIn a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

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"Laurence Rees brilliantly combines powerful eye-witness testimony, vivid narrative and compelling analysis in this superb account of how two terrible dictators led their countries in the most destructive and inhumane...
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940

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The "monumental" ( Washington Post ), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th century Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before...
African Europeans: An Untold History

African Europeans: An Untold History

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A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, "masterfully" ( Smithsonian ) revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History...
We All Go into the Dark

We All Go into the Dark

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A captivating, eloquent and nuanced book, We All Go into the Dark is an absolute must-read for true-crime fans across the board. Three women were brutally murdered between early 1968...
Days That Changed the World

Days That Changed the World

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This May Help You Understand the World

This May Help You Understand the World

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Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

Broken Threads: My Family From Empire to Independence

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS A TABLET BOOK OF THE YEAR 'One of the best memoirs I've read in years' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Beautifully...
The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World

The Power of Strangers: The Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World

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An interrogation of why we don't talk to strangers, what happens when we do, and why it affects everything from the rise and fall of nations to personal health and...
The Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton

The Dawn of Modern Cosmology: From Copernicus to Newton

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New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking scientists who brought it about 'How great, then, must be the incomprehensible...
End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration

End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration

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A brilliant new theory of how society works from one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time What leads to political turbulence and social breakdown? How do elites maintain...
Edible Economics: The World in 17 Dishes

Edible Economics: The World in 17 Dishes

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Economic thinking - about globalisation, climate change, immigration, austerity, automation and much more - in its most digestible form For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics....
Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

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An acclaimed historian of ideas shows how capitalist extremists profit from the collapse of the democratic nation Look at a map of the world and you'll see a neat patchwork...
Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West

Why Empires Fall: Rome, America and the Future of the West

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Why did Rome fall - and what can it teach us about the decline of the West today? A historian and a political economist investigate Over the last three centuries,...
The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

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The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process ushered in the modern era of plastic surgery...
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

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A reissue of Niall Ferguson's bestselling book with a major new chapter on the first ten years of the Financial Crisis Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot. Call it what you...
Antwerp: The Glory Years

Antwerp: The Glory Years

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This rich history of Antwerp in the sixteenth century was a Times Book of the Year and R4 Book of the Week A rich history of Antwerp from the author...
Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines

Analogia: The Entangled Destinies of Nature, Human Beings and Machines

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A spellbinding exploration of the emergence of the digital age and an unsettling vision of what comes next In a world where humans coexist with technologies they no longer control...
The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

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Niall Ferguson's pithy, digestible polemic on the decline of the West The Great Degeneration is a powerful - and in places polemical - indictment of an era of negligence and...
Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There

Forgotten Voices of D-Day: A Powerful New History of the Normandy Landings in the Words of Those Who Were There

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A startling new oral history of the turning point of World War 2- D-Day 6 June 1944- the day Allied forces crossed the Channel and began fighting their way into...
Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930

Unlocking the World: Port Cities and Globalization in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930

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The dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order Steam power transformed our world. It revolutionized work and production, but...
A Brief History of Mankind

A Brief History of Mankind

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A Brief History of Mankind is the thrilling introduction to the big ideas in history combining the latest research in history and archaeology to look for answers to some of...
The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England

The Private Lives of the Saints: Power, Passion and Politics in Anglo-Saxon England

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Skulduggery, power struggles and politics. A fascinating re-examination of Anglo-Saxon England told through the secret lives of the saints. From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Femina 'Ramirez blasts a...
Bunk

Bunk

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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction "There Kevin Young goes again, giving us books we greatly need, cleverly disguised as books we merely want. Unexpectedly essential." --Marlon James...
TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unpicks the misunderstandings around the boy king's life, death and legacy

TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unpicks the misunderstandings around the boy king's life, death and legacy

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Pharaoh. Icon. Enigma. Lost for three thousand years, m isunderstood for a century. A hundred years ago, a team of archaeologists in the Valley of the Kings made a remarkable...
A Brief History of Germany: Indispensable for Travellers

A Brief History of Germany: Indispensable for Travellers

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The history of Germany is intricately woven. Threaded in time through its struggles and triumphs with religion, industrialisation, enlightenment, politics, unification, and war. In A Brief History of Germany ,...
No One Man Should Have All That Power: How Rasputins Manipulate the World

No One Man Should Have All That Power: How Rasputins Manipulate the World

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An exploration of infamous, controversial figures and how they exert control.Amos Barshad has long been fascinated by the powerful. But not by elected officials or natural leaders-he's interested in their...
The Secret History of the World

The Secret History of the World

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The complete history of the world, from the beginning of time to the present day, based on the beliefs and writings of the secret societies. Jonathan Black...
Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets

Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets

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A New Yorker staff writer, investigates his grandfather, a Nazi Party Chief, in this "unflinching, gorgeously written, and deeply moving exploration of morality, family, and war" (Patrick Radden Keefe, author...
Making a Difference: Fifty Years of Indigenous Programs at Monash University

Making a Difference: Fifty Years of Indigenous Programs at Monash University

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India: Life, Myth and Art

India: Life, Myth and Art

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Jambusters: The remarkable story which has inspired the ITV drama Home Fires

Jambusters: The remarkable story which has inspired the ITV drama Home Fires

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I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition

I Have a Dream - 60th Anniversary Edition

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With new forewords and an afterword by Martin Luther King III, Dr. Bernice A. King, and Dexter Scott King A beautiful collectible edition celebrating the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin...
Butts: A Backstory

Butts: A Backstory

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"Winning, cheeky, and illuminating....What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke's intelligence and curiosity, something much meatier, entertaining, and wise." - The...